When you’re just getting started with a healthy eating plan, it may be enough to clean up your diet by eliminating soda, fast food, candy, and other foods that would typically be considered “bad.”
This won’t last forever. Eventually you’re going to have to track and measure what you’re eating, at least for a while. The closer you get to your goal weight, the harder it will be, and you’ll really have to know exactly what’s going in your body to continue making progress. With that being said, what should you be tracking? Calories or macros?
If you are tracking your macronutrients, you’ll always know exactly how many calories you’ve consumed that day. It doesn’t go both ways, however, as tracking calories alone can work for weight loss, but it isn’t going to show you the exact macronutrient breakdown you’re consuming, so you won’t be able to optimize your health and performance the same way.